An Exercise in Avoiding Boredom

The fumigation of that house in my neighborhood took only a day before it got untented.

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The hoopla around same-sex marriage on the radio today is deafening. The more amused I was when a friend sent me a link to this photo, courtesy of one “joestump” on Flickr.

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You may have seen it on American TV and not believed it. But it is true. Seen in my neighborhood, fortunately not too close to where I live.

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Now I know the real reasons behind the demise of my Roomba.

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Today, at work, I went running over lunch. When I returned to the locker room, I couldn’t open the lock to my locker with my clothes in it. Not sure what had happened, maybe the lock I was using had gotten old. In any case, I needed help, and so I went to the reception [...]

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As an experiment, I micro-blogged Josef Joffe’s lecture-turned-seminar at the German Stanford Association annual gathering in Heidelberg. Here the live(!) tweets, FWIW:
Josef Joffe turned lecture into seminar in Alte Aula. — 08:05 AM June 07, 2008 from TwitterBerry
Joffe: Does the world need the U.S. as a sheriff? — 08:07 AM June 07, 2008 from TwitterBerry
Joffe: [...]

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Today’s travel story (sorry, can’t help it) is about the cab driver who took me from my home to the airport. First of all, he was late, and then he couldn’t find my home address. In this day and age a cab driver without a navi is surprising, but he didn’t have one. In any [...]

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This morning’s coffee (from yesterday) came with a meaty surprise, as the photo below shows.

Regrettably, it was too late for the poor sucker as I had already microwaved the coffee.

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Amazingly enough, sarcasm helped. Or, I just got lucky, as there were no further complications.

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After arriving in Vancouver from San Francisco, I found this greeting from the Transport Security Administration (TSA) in my luggage.

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